rails generate Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Child Tax Credits, Working Tax Credits, Housing Benefit for the whole of the UK population

Whew, all done! And look how readable it is!

Are you saying you're FaceBook friends with the Illuminati?! Man, I bet they post the funniest pictures of shadowy, world-dominating cats.

There's a fantastic article in last month's Esquire magazine. They interviewed THE GUY who shot Bin Laden. They preserved the shooter's anonymity, but it is the true, first hand account of the SEAL who pulled the trigger. Fantastic read.

He's retired now after 16 years in the SEALs and gets basically nothing. No pension, no help with job placement in the civilian world, he can't put what he did on a resume, and the medical treatment for chronic injuries for vets is a joke.

I'm learning Finnish.

"Threat of force?"

I hear the WIPO has storm troopers now who bust down your door, slap you, then go back to the office and email ICANN, "Hey, transfer that domain to this other guy."

Yhl. Yhbt. Hand.

It tends to be liberal groups freaking out over harmless GMOs or cell phone radiation.

One could be overly critical and call that "bad spec," because the test case wasn't in the spec. But you can't get a perfect spec any more than you can get perfectly bug-free software.

More appropriately the cause is "real life" and "human beings." Digital software does not map perfectly to analog reality. Expecting perfect spec or perfect software is madness (except in Sparta, natch).

His problem is that his contracts are ending too early. Bugs, testing, and changes to the spec are part of the software development cycle. My contracts (the good ones, anyway) extend past go-live. A contract should include planning, development, dev testing, training, and user testing, and he's leaving out those last two parts.

Do you know why they call it the Xbox One? Because you take one look at it, turn 360 degrees and walk away.

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http://ycharts.com/companies/YHOO/cash_on_hand

About $3 billion in cash and short term investments. While that ain't just walkin-around money, sinking a third of what you've got into something that 1) isn't currently profitable and 2) your press release about the acquisition announces your plan is to "do nothing with it" is head-assplode crazy. If I had stock in Yahoo I'd be dumping it about now.

Yes, my GeoCities page back in 1996/7 was a fan site for Decent II that I updated exactly twice. Also, it had a different background texture for each page, terrible midi files of Jimi Hendrix songs (why?!?!) and animated gifs I made of spaceships blowing up. It was terrible, but in retrospect, awesome in its terribleness.

No, it's like how convicted pedophiles are not allowed to live or hang out near schools.

Obviously one has to draw a line somewhere, but comparing a computer to food is obviously not a rational comparison.

(And FYI, the analogy would be "People accused of lock picking are not allowed to have lockpicks". Which should be obvious.)

First off, £350 is probably not particularly out of line for the cost to process the records. If we were talking £350000 pounds, yeah, that would look like an attempt at censorship. But there's nothing pecular about £350. Secondly, if anyone in the media had felt it was even remotely newsworthy, they would have paid it. The media pays processing costs for records all the time. All that this means is that most news agencies consider Warg a non-story.

Also, you need replacements to sustain the user base. For a site that started for college-aged users, the demographics of facebook are aging. Teens/students don't want to be on FaceBook because their parents (and grandparents) are on FaceBook.

You're not wrong, but I had to laugh at the idea of "ruining" GeoCities. That sort of implies that at one time GeoCities was not ruinous, and then became so.